We lost Huey Piano Smith yesterday. New Orleans lost one of the progenitors of the "New Orleans " sound that carried down through The Fess, James Booker and so many others. A true pioneer of rock n roll. His sound will live on.
I grew up in NOLA listening to Huey and all the great music of the era. Another piece of my heart falls away each time another of the greats passes. I dare you to try and sit still whenever you hear his classic New Orleans piano!
Certainly not a progenitor. The Professor was ten years before as was Smiley Lewis, Fats Domino in 1949. Or for that matter Champion Jack Dupree. And those are just the ones with recordings that were hits.
Actually it's "Dooba dooba dooba dooba" -- a "d" rather than a "g." I had it wrong like you until I saw a live performance back in the day. And I sure loved to dance "the Lindy" to THIS one! (Hey! I'm o-o-o-o-o-o-OLD!)
@@Frenchwordsmith full lyrics. I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just know it) Baby, don't believe I wear two left shoes (Don't you just know it) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Hey, pretty baby, can we go strollin' (Don't you just know it) You got me rockin' when I wanna be rollin' (Don't you just know it) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Baby, baby, you're my blue heaven (Don't you just know it) You got me pushin' when I wanna be shoving (Don't you just know it) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) The older the woman, the more she teases (Don't you just know it) The younger the Couple, the tighter they squeeze (Don't you just know it) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh)
@@MrMotahead13 Thanks for all those lyrics! The thing is that I, too, THOUGHT that it was "dooba, dooba, dooba, dooba" when I'd dance to this number in the 1960's but, when you listen really carefully, it's "gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba." Everything else you wrote is spot on!
@@MrMotahead13 Oops! BIG screw-up! I meant just the opposite of what I wrote (too little sleep lately!) -- it's "dooba, dooba, dooba, dooba" -- NOT "gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba." Sorry 'bout that!
From left to right, Huey "Piano" Smith, Eugene Harris, Roosevelt Wright, Bobby Marchan. "Don't You Just Know It" was a No. 9 Billboard Hot 100 pop hit in 1958. There's a chapter about "Don't You Just Know It" in the New Orleans music biography "Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues."
@@tippimail1 Bobby is lip-syncing Gerri Hall's part on the recording, and Huey is lip-syncing Bobby's part of the record. Eugene is not on the record, so he's lip-syncing the vocal ensemble parts. The set-up for this clip from "The Dick Clark Show" is not representative of Huey and the Clowns on stage. Huey, of course, would normally be at the piano.
@@johnwirt5246 I doubt you'll ever find a Dick Clark show where the performer isn't lip-syncing. No way was he ever going to pay for an orchestra when he could just pocket the cash.
RIP Huey. You were a New Orleans original and an innovator of rock and roll. Unfortunately you did not get full credit nor royalties for the songs you produced. A true legend!!
I always heard "kooba", with a 'k'...& I broke a lotta bones dancing to this, back in the day!!! Fortunately for my continued skeletal well-being, I wore 3 or more copies of this record out. Then I got the "Havin' a Good Time" album, & the rest is history. I'll be 76 this year...& I still gotta get up & boogie when I hear this song. It HURTS.😥😖😫 I don't care. Rock on, y'all. & God bless y'all, Sir Huey & Clowns, wherever/however y'all are!!! & THANK YOU 🌟👏🏿.💞💃🏾🌟 💞
I always thought it was Cuba Cuba Cuba Cuba.I just turned 73 and dang, can this song make me get up and move! I was talking with my Aqua Fitness instructor, who uses a lot of Fifties and Sixties tunes in her playlist, and she had no idea that SEA CRUISE was Huey P Smith's song, and Frankie Ford's voice was ovedubbed, and nobody I know knows "Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Blues before Johnny Rivers version.
Rest in peace Huey piano Smith..a great artist.and an influence on the music scene in America .and an influence on me growing up in Gonzales, Louisiana...
Given the miserable depressing state of the world, perhaps this song should be played across the world in every country first thing in the morning. Let us make everyone HAPPY!😀😀😀
OMG I haven't hear this since I was a kid. 1958, I would have been age 10. I can remember playing it at at 12 or 13 in our little garage band. What memories! Thanks for posting this.
Loved it when I was 7 and first heard it and still love it 50 plus years later! Brings a smile to your face needed in these bad news days. I would give all my tomorrows for a single yesterday in the 50s and 60s will always love and miss those days 😀!
Breaking RIP 🖤🕊🕊🕊🖤😭💚🎶➡🙏 Huey Pierce Smith aka Huey "Piano" Smith (89, Feb 13, rep. 16h ago at "The Advocate" and 2h ago at "yahoo ! entertainment" and "1420 WMSM")
Fantastic song. Remember walking to with my transistor radio and this song came on all kids started singing and dancing Awesome song fond memories Camden nj.
My family & I went to my aunt & uncle's home in Virginia. it was summertime and we brought our friends Chin Li & Patty Proctor. My aunt, uncle & my cousins were happy to meet Patty & Chin. We all had a barbecue and hung out together!! Later my uncle took us to a very nice VFW hall in Virginia. Some of the people there knew my mother aunt, uncle & my aunt Rose. The music there was AWESOME and it was oldies music. A lot of the people there were dancing to oldies music and burning up the dance floor. My mother & my uncle jitterbugged to an oldies song and were cheered by everyone. Then my aunt Peggy and my aunt Rose teamed up with two other people and were cheered as well then my cousins danced with my aunt & uncle and were very Impressive!!! All of us looked at my mother and ready to hand everyone a SERIOUS dance LESSON!!!! This song started to play and all of us were FIRED UP!!!! My energy level went NUCLEAR and my sisters were ready to DESTROY the dance floor!!! We grabbed Patty and Chin and then went out on the dance floor and my sister Eva screamed, " LEVEL the BUILDING"!!! " NO PRISONERS"!!! Then we just DESTROYED the dance floor and everyone else there!!! People were FREAKING OUT and SCREAMING" "HOLY SHIT"!!! We saw people with their jaws open and STUNNED from the dance lesson we handed out!!! My mother and the rest of our family was SCREAMING!!!! " TEAR IT UP KIDS"!!! We got done and the SCREAMING and CHEERING was DEFENING!!!! My mother, my aunt Rose, and my uncle's family held us with tears in their eyes!!! Everyone there was asking my mother, " WHO are THESE KIDS"!!!!! my mother told them, " My kids were dancing since they were little" and my twins Eva And Allie would take the dances and spice them up!!!! Allie is very nervous and HIGH ENERGY which adds more excitement and INTENSITY!!! every time the kids dance together!!! Chin and Patty then hugged and kissed all of us and then told us, "When we dance with you people we are in for the THRILL!!! of our LIVES!!!!
This age-old 1950s early rock recording, was written by Huey (piano) Smith, and Johnny Vincent Imbragulio, owner of Ace records in Jackson Mississippi. Vincent would bring those New Orleans artists up to his recording studio on Capital street in downtown Jackson to make those recordings. Some were recorded in New Orleans at other studios with the Ace Records label and many others were actually recorded in Jackson. That piece of history is not very well-known.
Я впервые услышал эту песню семь лет назад!? Был поражён силой, задором, непосредственностью!!! А вчера пересмотрел "Большой Куш" Гая Ричи. В конце фильма эта песня звучала как подарок!!! Шикарно!!!
The song lyrics that someone posted below are not totally correct - (and it IS "Gooba", NOT "Dooba") - OK these are courtesy of John Broven's great book "Walking To New Orleans" where he interviewed members of the group- DON’T YOU JUST KNOW IT (words & music by Huey Smith & Johnny Vincent)
I can’t lose with the stuff I use - (Don’t You Just Know It) Baby don’t believe I wear two left shoes - (Don’t You Just Know It)
Chorus: A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o), gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o)
Hey pretty baby can we go strollin’ (Don’t You Just Know It) You got me rockin’ when I oughta be rollin’ (Don’t You Just Know It)
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o), gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o)
Baby baby you’re my blue heaven (Don’t You Just Know It) You got me pushin’ when I oughta be shovin’ (Don’t You Just Know It)
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o), gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o)
Higher the mountain, cooler the breeze (Don’t You Just Know It) Younger the couple, the tighter they squeeze (Don’t You Just Know It)
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o), gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o)
What are you talking about? Have you attended a rap concert? A Hip Hop concert? A Heavy Metal concert? How about a waffle house at 2 am? In case you haven't noticed, little has changed.
The group appearing in this live performance on TV is not exactly the same members who actually recorded the song. Huey played piano on this record, he did not sing as he appears to be doing here. It's lead singer Bobby Marchan who leads the chorus "Ah ha ha ha - gooba gooba...." throughout the record version. Gerri Hall, who doesn't even appear in the live version here, is also on the record - She is the one who sings the last part of the verses - "Baby don't believe I wear two left shoes" - "You got me rockin' when I oughta be rollin" etc. Bobby Marchan, (female impersonator in real life) is miming her parts here for this appearance.
@@ersatzo - As I mentioned in my post above, Gerri Hall is singing those parts on the actual Ace recording. Marchan is miming to her parts in the video.
@@ausfan100 I realized that you mentioned that. I first heard the song as a little kid when it came out and had always thought it was sung by a woman until I saw the video. So I was surprised for a few hours until I read your comment.
Wonderful. I Have loved this side for a long time, and I am OLD. It is a KILLER side. It moves, it IS a hook; -the entire record is one large hook. 'Tis marvelous in our eyes. No wonder filmmakers have recently used this side for many movies. Earl Palmer played the drums on this and the other Huey Smith ACE sides. Earl Palmer is one of my favourite drummers; -PLUS, Palmer influenced my other favourite drummers. Earl Palmer's meter was PERFECT. A person could set The Atomic Clock at Greenwich by Earl Palmer's Rhythm! Palmer played a minimal trap set, -one snare, one tom, one ride, one crash, etc. Simple, but infectious -Not so simple. Earl palmer MADE hit records just as Hal Blaine did. New Orleans drummers are the most deadly metronome-like drummers on the planet. Charlie Watts, drew much of his inspiration and direction from Palmer and other New Orleans musicians. Watts deserved a knighthood The late, great Lou Witney hipped me to this side and all Huey Smith music, -over 45 years ago, and The Morells covered it beautifully with Donnie Clinton Thompson's exceptional singing and playing. D.C. Thompson, wherever you are, your performance of this side overwhelmed me and has not diminished with memory. I miss you, Lou & Marilee, more than I can say. Those late nights after our dates, eating at a diner chosen by Lou were , perhaps, the highlight of my life. Just to be considered a friend by you and Lou, overwhelmed me. We initially met on "The Landing" in St. Louis. We were playing Mississippi Nights, and The Morelles were playing at a club across the street. Regardless of the venue, The Morels earn exactly TWICE mu combo's fee (you deserved more). During a break, my fender bass player, grabbed, and forcefully dragged me to your performance. The Morells were playing "Reds" and you were in the middle of your legendary lead for that side. Next, you played "Don't You Just Know It". YOUR vocal of that tune was wondrous. Of course, our break ran 10 minutes over-time and the club owner was going nuts. Lou later embarrassed me by saying, "What? You've never listened to Huey Piano Smith?!". Oh Dear. At 20 years old, I suddenly realised that my records were enough. I spent well over a year learning to play your lead passages on "Reds" & "Growing A Beard". -But, only a pathetic imitation. I can play the notes, but NOT the the music. I spent the next 20 years learning your style, but, never well enough to use! I eventually did a fair cover of "Eager Boy", -but still no match to yours. Did YOU write that song?! It is a remarkable lyric. The publishing data could not be determined in time, hence, it could not be be pressed. Thank god I never truly learned your style, as, otherwise, I'd not have developed a style of my own! Years later, I found the best Jazz and theory teacher in Manhattan. He tolerated me for over 4 years. He passed away from an unexpected heart-attack. My influences became many. Huey Smith, Lou Whitney and D.C. Thompson remain some of my major pilots. God Bless, Donnie Clinton Thompson and Lou Whitney who introduced this song to me over 40 years ago. I remain humbly grateful.
Back in Brooklyn when this record was a BIG hit, things were a lot more, well, kids ysed to sing this song whenever something bad happened to a person or thing which was thought b of as an enemy or some person or condition we disapproved of, or if a kid in a rival gang, or the Russians or just a teacher that we all wished would die tomorrow, had some kind of (preferably serious) misfortune, we would all say or sing: "op, op, op, op,.....daaayo.... Kuba, kuba, Kuba, kuba....ha, ha, ha, ha" What could I tell you? This was Back in Brooklyn back in thecreal America folks.....
If this is the Beech-Nut Show, it must be the episode broadcast on March 15th 1958. It was the fifth of the series, and the third sponsored by Beech-Nut. Interstingly the audience are not wearing the IFIC buttons that became synonymous with the show. I guess they must have come later?
@@catsquirrel3270 Yeah i think the first Saturday night show was in the summer of 58 or somewhere near there.. I remember watching it when I was 8 years old then.
@@recordguy4321 Fantastic - I am 57 so too young to have seen those shows originally, but I have loved Rock n Roll music all my life. Very envious of you... Funny enough I am going to a Rockabilly festival in Spain this coming weekend.
Just like John Lennon from the Beatles wished in his song: IMAGINE. - no countries, no religion no black or white : Nothing to kill and die for ~ ~ ~. WHEN???
I thought it was "high on a mountain, cool as a breeze" , and now after all these years I found out I was close. Him pointing up made it clear the word he said really was "mountain" then from there I narrowed it down. Once I had confirmation it was "mountain" , and I would repeat what I originally thought it was, what I was saying didn't match up to what he was saying. But now I know it's "On a mountain, cool as breeze". I followed the same pattern of keeping the lyric short for the second part "cool as breeze".
@@youtuberyoutuber2495 - Sorry to disagree but after listening again and referring your comment to other fellow collectors, it is quite clear to me that Roosevelt at 1:46 sings "Higher The Mountain, cooler the breeze" just as I originally posted. Try as I might, I can't see how you could possibly hear him sing the words "ON" or "A" anywhere in that passage. The bottom line is that the lyrics that I posted came from the group members themselves, and who would know better.
@@ausfan100 to this day I still dont hear that. Its like with "Chasing Cars" the lyrics is "if I lay here, if I just lay here" well my ears still hear "if I lie here, if I just lay here"
@@youtuberyoutuber2495 - Believe what you will. I don't know how you could hear otherwise. The lyrics I posted fit perfectly and were provided by members of the group, including Huey Smith........ In other words straight from the horses mouth and reproduced in John Brovens classic book.
We lost Huey Piano Smith yesterday. New Orleans lost one of the progenitors of the "New Orleans " sound that carried down through The Fess, James Booker and so many others. A true pioneer of rock n roll. His sound will live on.
I grew up in NOLA listening to Huey and all the great music of the era. Another piece of my heart falls away each time another of the greats passes. I dare you to try and sit still whenever you hear his classic New Orleans piano!
@@guymoody3540 Are you familiar with 'Don't You Know Jockamo (sp)?
@@Juliaflooops... "Yockomo", n'est-ce pas?
@@JuliafloDerek Llewellyn top 🎩 hat
Certainly not a progenitor. The Professor was ten years before as was Smiley Lewis, Fats Domino in 1949. Or for that matter Champion Jack Dupree. And those are just the ones with recordings that were hits.
Priceless.dynamic.
Recorded in a time when all the young men dressed in suits and ties and the women wore dresses.
"Gooba gooba gooba gooba" is the most profound lyric in any pop song before or since.
LOL!!!!!!!!!You win the internet.
Actually it's "Dooba dooba dooba dooba" -- a "d" rather than a "g." I had it wrong like you until I saw a live performance back in the day. And I sure loved to dance "the Lindy" to THIS one! (Hey! I'm o-o-o-o-o-o-OLD!)
@@Frenchwordsmith full lyrics. I can't lose with the stuff I use
(Don't you just know it)
Baby, don't believe I wear two left shoes
(Don't you just know it)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
Hey, pretty baby, can we go strollin'
(Don't you just know it)
You got me rockin' when I wanna be rollin'
(Don't you just know it)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
Baby, baby, you're my blue heaven
(Don't you just know it)
You got me pushin' when I wanna be shoving
(Don't you just know it)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
The older the woman, the more she teases
(Don't you just know it)
The younger the Couple, the tighter they squeeze
(Don't you just know it)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)
@@MrMotahead13 Thanks for all those lyrics! The thing is that I, too, THOUGHT that it was "dooba, dooba, dooba, dooba" when I'd dance to this number in the 1960's but, when you listen really carefully, it's "gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba." Everything else you wrote is spot on!
@@MrMotahead13 Oops! BIG screw-up! I meant just the opposite of what I wrote (too little sleep lately!) -- it's "dooba, dooba, dooba, dooba" -- NOT "gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba." Sorry 'bout that!
From left to right, Huey "Piano" Smith, Eugene Harris, Roosevelt Wright, Bobby Marchan. "Don't You Just Know It" was a No. 9 Billboard Hot 100 pop hit in 1958. There's a chapter about "Don't You Just Know It" in the New Orleans music biography "Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues."
Roosevelt Wright was the bass singer and Bobby Marchan provided the falsetto.
@@tippimail1 Bobby is lip-syncing Gerri Hall's part on the recording, and Huey is lip-syncing Bobby's part of the record. Eugene is not on the record, so he's lip-syncing the vocal ensemble parts. The set-up for this clip from "The Dick Clark Show" is not representative of Huey and the Clowns on stage. Huey, of course, would normally be at the piano.
@@johnwirt5246 I doubt you'll ever find a Dick Clark show where the performer isn't lip-syncing. No way was he ever going to pay for an orchestra when he could just pocket the cash.
thank you john!!
I saw the Clowns reunion at the 1979 Jazz Fest, with Huey Smith, Roosevelt Wright, Curley Moore, and Bobby Marchan, backed by David Lastie's band.
This must be the only video footage on Huey Smith & the Clowns... made my day!
Kudos to Guy Richie and the sound crew for keeping this diddy alive.
My favorite end to one of my favorite movies - Snatch!
Snatch is what brought me here😂
How wonderful to finally see them in action!
83 now and remember this so we’ll-such fine music in my teen-age years!
RIP Huey. You were a New Orleans original and an innovator of rock and roll. Unfortunately you did not get full credit nor royalties for the songs you produced. A true legend!!
Those young kids in the audience...are all in their 80's today.
Reading your comment really made me think 🤔
and they're still cool 😎
I’m one of them!
I teach this song in public school. The kids still love it. Travel on Huey P. Now we just know it.
One of my old-time favorites which I hadn't heard in years. Thanks for bringing back the memories
RIP Huey, and thanks for all the feelgood music.
Heute hat " Ha, Ha, Ha", als best Film in Londres gewonnen . Hat gleiche Musik😮
I always heard "kooba", with a 'k'...& I broke a lotta bones dancing to this, back in the day!!!
Fortunately for my continued skeletal well-being, I wore 3 or more copies of this record out. Then I got the "Havin' a Good Time" album, & the rest is history.
I'll be 76 this year...& I still gotta get up & boogie when I hear this song.
It HURTS.😥😖😫
I don't care.
Rock on, y'all. & God bless y'all, Sir Huey & Clowns, wherever/however y'all are!!!
& THANK YOU
🌟👏🏿.💞💃🏾🌟
💞
I'm 39 and this has been my jam since I was a kid too.
Keep on dancing! ❤️
I always thought it was Cuba Cuba Cuba Cuba.I just turned 73 and dang, can this song make me get up and move! I was talking with my Aqua Fitness instructor, who uses a lot of Fifties and Sixties tunes in her playlist, and she had no idea that SEA CRUISE was Huey P Smith's song, and Frankie Ford's voice was ovedubbed, and nobody I know knows "Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Blues before Johnny Rivers version.
Have loved this song forever, but had never seen Huey Piano Smith performing it! Thanks for this clip!
Pure entertainment! I am in my 70's and way back years ago I remember when this song got a lot of radio air time!
Rest in peace Huey piano Smith..a great artist.and an influence on the music scene in America .and an influence on me growing up in Gonzales, Louisiana...
“A BRONX TALE.”🎼🎹🎤🎤🎤🎤🎼
Given the miserable depressing state of the world, perhaps this song should be played across the world in every country first thing in the morning. Let us make everyone HAPPY!😀😀😀
Next to Clarence "Frogman" Henry's " Ain't Got No Home"; this is one of my favorites of the 1958 Era. Old Fashion Rock & Roll.
and any song from K-Doe and Fats and you got me too!
That groove is perfection! If you're not tapping your toes, you might be dead. So many hooks!
I bought this record,,always liked the group!!! "High Blood Pressure!
In memory of my uncle who introduced me to this song as a child in 1968.....
OMG I haven't hear this since I was a kid. 1958, I would have been age 10. I can remember playing it at at 12 or 13 in our little garage band. What memories! Thanks for posting this.
RIP Huey--thanks for the music!
This certainly brightened my day! GH
Loved it when I was 7 and first heard it and still love it 50 plus years later! Brings a smile to your face needed in these bad news days. I would give all my tomorrows for a single yesterday in the 50s and 60s will always love and miss those days 😀!
This song gives me chills! 😍❣️
Fantastic.....singing along to this song with my grandkids....
Breaking RIP 🖤🕊🕊🕊🖤😭💚🎶➡🙏 Huey Pierce Smith aka Huey "Piano" Smith (89, Feb 13, rep. 16h ago at "The Advocate" and 2h ago at "yahoo ! entertainment" and "1420 WMSM")
Absolutely awesome love it!!!!
Just another nugget that made the movie "Snatch" so great.
Great song and dance. Great video. its cool to see what it was like back then.
coolest of cool man what super hit
My dad said, "It's all Blues". Sure is. Love these beautiful guys.
in the early 60s we use to sing that song on the bus when we went of field trips.that and "Ring dang dune"
I have never heard of this group but I guarantee you I’m adding them to my playlist
Finally the holy grail!
Yep!!!
Fantastic song. Remember walking to with my transistor radio and this song came on all kids started singing and dancing
Awesome song fond memories Camden nj.
God bless huey he will be missed dearly.
And we say goodbye and a profound Thank You to Huey and all the enduring joy he brung to so many around the world. 😪
RIP Huey . Love this classic. Amazulu covered in 1985 with an iconic video .
My family & I went to my aunt & uncle's home in Virginia. it was summertime and we brought our friends Chin Li &
Patty Proctor. My aunt, uncle & my cousins were happy to meet Patty & Chin. We all had a barbecue and hung out
together!! Later my uncle took us to a very nice VFW hall in Virginia. Some of the people there knew my mother
aunt, uncle & my aunt Rose. The music there was AWESOME and it was oldies music. A lot of the people there were
dancing to oldies music and burning up the dance floor. My mother & my uncle jitterbugged to an oldies song and were
cheered by everyone. Then my aunt Peggy and my aunt Rose teamed up with two other people and were cheered as well
then my cousins danced with my aunt & uncle and were very Impressive!!! All of us looked at my mother and ready to hand
everyone a SERIOUS dance LESSON!!!! This song started to play and all of us were FIRED UP!!!! My energy level went NUCLEAR
and my sisters were ready to DESTROY the dance floor!!! We grabbed Patty and Chin and then went out on the dance floor and
my sister Eva screamed, " LEVEL the BUILDING"!!! " NO PRISONERS"!!! Then we just DESTROYED the dance floor and everyone
else there!!! People were FREAKING OUT and SCREAMING" "HOLY SHIT"!!! We saw people with their jaws open and STUNNED
from the dance lesson we handed out!!! My mother and the rest of our family was SCREAMING!!!! " TEAR IT UP KIDS"!!! We got
done and the SCREAMING and CHEERING was DEFENING!!!! My mother, my aunt Rose, and my uncle's family held us with tears
in their eyes!!! Everyone there was asking my mother, " WHO are THESE KIDS"!!!!! my mother told them, " My kids were dancing
since they were little" and my twins Eva And Allie would take the dances and spice them up!!!! Allie is very nervous and HIGH ENERGY
which adds more excitement and INTENSITY!!! every time the kids dance together!!! Chin and Patty then hugged and kissed all of
us and then told us, "When we dance with you people we are in for the THRILL!!! of our LIVES!!!!
Such a long story
Sorry we lost this musical jenious, when I was a young man they use to play this song in the juke box every five minutes.
RIP Huey "Piano" Smith (1934 - 2023)🇺🇲🎹🎵🎶
Singing along to this with my kids when they were little… such a wonderfully simple recipe for a great song.
RIP, Huey.
Great find...
One of those gems you can't just sit down.
This age-old 1950s early rock recording, was written by Huey (piano) Smith, and Johnny Vincent Imbragulio, owner of Ace records in Jackson Mississippi. Vincent would bring those New Orleans artists up to his recording studio on Capital street in downtown Jackson to make those recordings. Some were recorded in New Orleans at other studios with the Ace Records label and many others were actually recorded in Jackson. That piece of history is not very well-known.
RIP Huey “Piano” Smith...
Fantastic!
Я впервые услышал эту песню семь лет назад!? Был поражён силой, задором, непосредственностью!!! А вчера пересмотрел "Большой Куш" Гая Ричи. В конце фильма эта песня звучала как подарок!!! Шикарно!!!
The song lyrics that someone posted below are not totally correct - (and it IS "Gooba", NOT "Dooba")
- OK these are courtesy of John Broven's great book "Walking To New Orleans" where he interviewed members of the group-
DON’T YOU JUST KNOW IT
(words & music by Huey Smith & Johnny Vincent)
I can’t lose with the stuff I use - (Don’t You Just Know It)
Baby don’t believe I wear two left shoes - (Don’t You Just Know It)
Chorus:
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o),
gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba)
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o)
Hey pretty baby can we go strollin’ (Don’t You Just Know It)
You got me rockin’ when I oughta be rollin’ (Don’t You Just Know It)
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o),
gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba)
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o)
Baby baby you’re my blue heaven (Don’t You Just Know It)
You got me pushin’ when I oughta be shovin’ (Don’t You Just Know It)
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o),
gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba)
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o)
Higher the mountain, cooler the breeze (Don’t You Just Know It)
Younger the couple, the tighter they squeeze (Don’t You Just Know It)
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o),
gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba)
A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o)
Repeat chorus on fadeout
Rock in Peace, Huey P!
Gotta love the 50's such a diverse audience that night.
😂
What are you talking about? Have you attended a rap concert? A Hip Hop concert? A Heavy Metal concert? How about a waffle house at 2 am? In case you haven't noticed, little has changed.
Dr. Feelgood initially brought this song to my attention and now I accidentally found this !!
Cj used to love walking down stteet singing this in elementary school
This is great thank you very much for this been lookin for a long time
The group appearing in this live performance on TV is not exactly the same members who actually recorded the song. Huey played piano on this record, he did not sing as he appears to be doing here. It's lead singer Bobby Marchan who leads the chorus "Ah ha ha ha - gooba gooba...." throughout the record version. Gerri Hall, who doesn't even appear in the live version here, is also on the record - She is the one who sings the last part of the verses - "Baby don't believe I wear two left shoes" - "You got me rockin' when I oughta be rollin" etc. Bobby Marchan, (female impersonator in real life) is miming her parts here for this appearance.
Thanks for the info!
I thought the part that Marchan is miming sounded like it was sung by a woman.
@@ersatzo - As I mentioned in my post above, Gerri Hall is singing those parts on the actual Ace recording. Marchan is miming to her parts in the video.
@@ausfan100 I realized that you mentioned that. I first heard the song as a little kid when it came out and had always thought it was sung by a woman until I saw the video. So I was surprised for a few hours until I read your comment.
I mean I had always thought that the part Marchan was miming sounded like it was sung by a woman.
Love it!
Doing the stroll to this was popular
Don’t you wish we had music like that today instead of rap?
Fats domino respected rap he said it's just words
Thank you so much for posting this! Amazing footage!
super awesome!
R.I.P HUEY
RIP Huey
They were anything but clowns tho. God rest their souls.😢
Holy moly!
WONDERFUL THANK-YOU FOR POSTING : )
Great party song. Even better on Bourbon Street! Music that brings people together!
Judging by the diversity of the audience, it certainly brings _white_ people together!
@@hwgray Hey wokester, go back to sleep. Party on the streets of New Orleans this Mardi Gras and you'll see all races dancing to Huey's music.
Now this is music 😊😊😊
A classic, if there ever was one. Truly the emerging phase of R&B, especially to white audiences.
Rest in peace.
Thanks!
Audience is priceless...
Wonderful. I Have loved this side for a long time, and I am OLD. It is a KILLER side. It moves, it IS a hook; -the entire record is one large hook. 'Tis marvelous in our eyes. No wonder filmmakers have recently used this side for many movies.
Earl Palmer played the drums on this and the other Huey Smith ACE sides.
Earl Palmer is one of my favourite drummers; -PLUS, Palmer influenced my other favourite drummers. Earl Palmer's meter was PERFECT. A person could set The Atomic Clock at Greenwich by Earl Palmer's Rhythm! Palmer played a minimal trap set, -one snare, one tom, one ride, one crash, etc. Simple, but infectious -Not so simple. Earl palmer MADE hit records just as Hal Blaine did.
New Orleans drummers are the most deadly metronome-like drummers on the planet. Charlie Watts, drew much of his inspiration and direction from Palmer and other New Orleans musicians. Watts deserved a knighthood
The late, great Lou Witney hipped me to this side and all Huey Smith music, -over 45 years ago, and The Morells covered it beautifully with Donnie Clinton Thompson's exceptional singing and playing.
D.C. Thompson, wherever you are, your performance of this side overwhelmed me and has not diminished with memory. I miss you, Lou & Marilee, more than I can say. Those late nights after our dates, eating at a diner chosen by Lou were , perhaps, the highlight of my life. Just to be considered a friend by you and Lou, overwhelmed me.
We initially met on "The Landing" in St. Louis. We were playing Mississippi Nights, and The Morelles were playing at a club across the street. Regardless of the venue, The Morels earn exactly TWICE mu combo's fee (you deserved more).
During a break, my fender bass player, grabbed, and forcefully dragged me to your performance. The Morells were playing "Reds" and you were in the middle of your legendary lead for that side. Next, you played "Don't You Just Know It". YOUR vocal of that tune was wondrous. Of course, our break ran 10 minutes over-time and the club owner was going nuts.
Lou later embarrassed me by saying, "What? You've never listened to Huey Piano Smith?!". Oh Dear. At 20 years old, I suddenly realised that my records were enough.
I spent well over a year learning to play your lead passages on "Reds" & "Growing A Beard". -But, only a pathetic imitation. I can play the notes, but NOT the the music. I spent the next 20 years learning your style, but, never well enough to use! I eventually did a fair cover of "Eager Boy", -but still no match to yours. Did YOU write that song?! It is a remarkable lyric. The publishing data could not be determined in time, hence, it could not be be pressed.
Thank god I never truly learned your style, as, otherwise, I'd not have developed a style of my own! Years later, I found the best Jazz and theory teacher in Manhattan. He tolerated me for over 4 years. He passed away from an unexpected heart-attack.
My influences became many. Huey Smith, Lou Whitney and D.C. Thompson remain some of my major pilots.
God Bless, Donnie Clinton Thompson and Lou Whitney who introduced this song to me over 40 years ago. I remain humbly grateful.
Anyone here because of Stephen King, the Stand?
my favorite song
Back in Brooklyn when this record was a BIG hit, things were a lot more, well, kids ysed to sing this song whenever something bad happened to a person or thing which was thought b of as an enemy or some person or condition we disapproved of, or if a kid in a rival gang, or the Russians or just a teacher that we all wished would die tomorrow, had some kind of (preferably serious) misfortune, we would all say or sing: "op, op, op, op,.....daaayo....
Kuba, kuba, Kuba, kuba....ha, ha, ha, ha" What could I tell you?
This was Back in Brooklyn back in thecreal America folks.....
LOVE IT!! THANK YOU!!
saw them do it live at the Apollo...
Class
Best song ever🦘💨💨💨
Going by the teenage audience this television footage look like it's either from "Dick Clark American Bandstand" or "The Dick Clark Beech Nut Show"
It is the Beech Nut Show.
Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut Show, March 15th 1958
I heard this in the film A Bronx Tale and wondered what it was
If this is the Beech-Nut Show, it must be the episode broadcast on March 15th 1958. It was the fifth of the series, and the third sponsored by Beech-Nut. Interstingly the audience are not wearing the IFIC buttons that became synonymous with the show. I guess they must have come later?
Yes it is the sat Night Beech Nut Show When bobby Darin sings Queen of the Hop from 58 the kids are wearing the IFIC buttons.
@@recordguy4321 That was November 1st 1958, so quite a bit later.
@@catsquirrel3270 Yeah i think the first Saturday night show was in the summer of 58 or somewhere near there.. I remember watching it when I was 8 years old then.
@@recordguy4321 Fantastic - I am 57 so too young to have seen those shows originally, but I have loved Rock n Roll music all my life. Very envious of you... Funny enough I am going to a Rockabilly festival in Spain this coming weekend.
@@catsquirrel3270 good for you ,we've got a rockabilly festival next month down here in south Florida with a bunch of acts. Have fun in Espana
I remember hearing this song in a ninja turtles commercial like 19 years ago
Saturday Night Beechnut Show
A Bronx tale and brought me here
The Movie Snatch Bought Me Here
RIP
I thought Bobby Marchan's part was a lady?
Judging by the album cover, Mr. Smith was a happy man!
I thought so too
he was a female impersonator.
Marchan is miming to the part sung on the record by Gerri Hall. As pointed out, he was also a female impersonator, so that fit perfectly.
This great hit was played only in a gangster moive
Just like John Lennon from the Beatles wished in his song: IMAGINE. - no countries, no religion no black or white : Nothing to kill and die for ~ ~ ~. WHEN???
Let’s put some mota in our love life!!!!
y yo pensando que habia una voz femenina...temon en todo caso!!!
Good cover by Amazulu
Does anyone know where this live performance was aired ???
It's wonderful seeing this!!
Thank you 😊
It's from March 15, 1958 Dick Clark Saturday Beech-Nut Show.
I thought it was "high on a mountain, cool as a breeze" , and now after all these years I found out I was close. Him pointing up made it clear the word he said really was "mountain" then from there I narrowed it down. Once I had confirmation it was "mountain" , and I would repeat what I originally thought it was, what I was saying didn't match up to what he was saying.
But now I know it's "On a mountain, cool as breeze".
I followed the same pattern of keeping the lyric short for the second part "cool as breeze".
The actual lyric is "Higher The Mountain - Cooler The Breeze - Younger The Couple - The Tighter They squeeze"
@@ausfan100 not hearing "higher" or "the" but I am hearing "on" "a"
@@youtuberyoutuber2495 - Sorry to disagree but after listening again and referring your comment to other fellow collectors, it is quite clear to me that Roosevelt at 1:46 sings "Higher The Mountain, cooler the breeze" just as I originally posted. Try as I might, I can't see how you could possibly hear him sing the words "ON" or "A" anywhere in that passage. The bottom line is that the lyrics that I posted came from the group members themselves, and who would know better.
@@ausfan100 to this day I still dont hear that.
Its like with "Chasing Cars" the lyrics is "if I lay here, if I just lay here" well my ears still hear "if I lie here, if I just lay here"
@@youtuberyoutuber2495 - Believe what you will. I don't know how you could hear otherwise. The lyrics I posted fit perfectly and were provided by members of the group, including Huey Smith........ In other words straight from the horses mouth and reproduced in John Brovens classic book.